The court at Maples Pavilion, on which VanDerveer's women's basketball teams won 531 games, will be known as Tara VanDerveer Court in honor of the NCAA's all-time winningest coach. A women's basketball assistant coachship will also bear her name, Stanford Athletics announced yesterday.
The seventh and largest cohort to date comprises students from 30 countries who will pursue degrees in 45 graduate programs across all seven schools at Stanford.
Course and exhibition explore our relationship with apes
An exhibition and undergraduate course at Stanford examines the peculiar scrutiny people have placed on their primate relatives to better understand the human condition.
Varun Soni, an interfaith leader who is the first Hindu to serve as the lead chaplain on a U.S. college campus, will be the keynote speaker at June’s Baccalaureate celebration.
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Visiting fellow Susan Rice will focus on AI governance
The former domestic policy advisor to President Biden will have appointments across FSI and the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
The Hoover Institution unveiled the George P. Shultz Building at a ribbon-cutting ceremony late last month, dedicating the structure to a statesman who exemplified public service and civility.
Wu Tsai Neuro celebrates ten years of team science
Leaders of the Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute reflect on a decade of boundary-breaking study of the brain and what lies ahead for Stanford’s widespread neurosciences community.
New department broadens the scope of sustainability scholarship
The Department of Environmental Social Sciences incorporates the human element into interdisciplinary efforts to tackle humanity’s greatest sustainability challenges.
Gift advances the work of the Stanford Center on Early Childhood
Support from the Saul Zaentz Charitable Foundation will accelerate the exchange of expertise among researchers, policymakers, and front-line practitioners.
A new partnership between Vaden Health Services and the program Art Pharmacy taps into the power of experiences like taking a poetry workshop or attending a photography exhibit for enhancing student well-being.
Stanford Impact Labs forges partnerships to tackle social problems
Stanford Impact Labs provides an innovative research and development pipeline for the social sciences, connecting researchers with leaders in the public, social and private sectors to develop evidence-driven solutions to social problems.
Living Laboratory Fellowship for Sustainability launches
The program supports student work on interdisciplinary projects that directly contribute to greening the university’s operations, including installing solar panels on the roof of the Terry Huffington Barn to power the O’Donohue Family Educational Farm.
Stanford’s ethnic community centers inducted four new members into the university’s Multicultural Alumni Hall of Fame at a ceremony held during Reunion Homecoming weekend.
The new Cardinal at Work Cares program launches Nov. 1 with more ways to give back
The expanded employee give-back program includes an online platform that makes it easy to find opportunities to volunteer, and Stanford’s month-long donation drive, which returns in person for the first time since the pandemic.
Community Board report identifies steps for reimagining campus safety
The second progress report from Stanford’s Community Board on Public Safety provides an update on efforts to reimagine and strengthen public safety operations on campus. The panel is highlighting steps that can be implemented in the coming academic year as well as longer-term initiatives.
John Sarrao begins his tenure as SLAC’s sixth director
A materials scientist who specializes in superconductors, Sarrao brings a deep background in national lab leadership and the evolution of SLAC science.
